Admissions & selectivity
University of the Pacific Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of the Pacific?
University of the Pacific’s reported acceptance rate is 71.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 71.3%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of the Pacific admits 71.3% of applicants, nearly identical to the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of the Pacific students report?
Score submitters among enrolled students at University of the Pacific covered a wide academic range, so the figures are context rather than admission minimums. The middle half of submitted SAT scores ran from 1,183 to 1,480, and the corresponding ACT range was 23 through 32.
These ranges describe enrolled students who submitted scores, not all enrolled students. Applicants should compare their own results with the university’s SAT range of 1,183 to 1,480 and ACT range of 23 to 32 when deciding how to shape an application list.
Scores near either end remain within the range reported for recent enrolled submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of the Pacific. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1183
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1480
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 23
- 75th percentile
- 32
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of the Pacific?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 36.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 19.7%
- First-year retention
- 88.5%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Federal grant aid is part of the undergraduate picture at University of the Pacific: 36.1% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants. The private nonprofit university enrolls 3,204 undergraduates, and an estimated 19.7% of its undergraduate population entered as transfers or part-time students.
Those figures describe a campus serving both grant recipients and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere, rather than showing how applications are judged. The composition points to more than one route into the undergraduate population without indicating an admission priority.
Students who start full time post retention and completion rates that are above the medians for comparable institutions. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 69.0%, above the peer median of 68.8%.
First-year retention is 88.5%, also above its peer median of 83.4%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 67.4%, below the overall rate by 1.6 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these published rates to describe cohort outcomes rather than guarantee an individual timeline. Above-peer retention and completion point in the same direction, though Pell completion remains lower than the overall rate.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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